5 Things to Pray for Your Parents ebook

While I'm quick to pray for my husband, children, and church, I often forget to pray for the hearts and lives of my own parents. I'm so grateful for Chelsea's wisdom and helpful prompts! I look forward to using this resource in my own life.

In Five Things to Pray for Your Parents, Chelsea Stanley equips us with biblical truth and encouragement to pray for every kind of parent in every kind of situation. This book is immensely practical and has spurred me to pray faithfully and specifically for my own parents.

I grew up knowing that my parents prayed for me every day, but it took me a long time to realize I could (and should) pray for them too. This book is a wonderful guide to help me see how to do that in a way that is rooted in Scripture and honoring to them.

Scripture-saturated, accessible, soul-stirring, and convicting. I recommend this practical aid to young and old as a thoughtful encouragement in a duty we too easily neglect: praying for our parents. Whether you’re on good terms or painful, whether they’re believers (yet) or not, spending time praying for them through this study will warm affections, encourage repentance, and implore God to do what only he can.

When I found out about this book, I immediately started using it to pray for my own parents. 5 Things to Pray for Your Parents has blessed me so much, and has reminded me that ultimately, if I want to bless and honor my loved ones, I've got to start with prayer.

5 Things to Pray for Your Parents deals in things that are particularly close to God’s heart—his Word, earnest prayer, and caring for our parents. The practice Stanley invites us into will, no doubt, engage us more profoundly in certain seasons, but it is full of promise in all seasons, both for the ones prayed for and the one praying.

Chelsea Stanley has blessed the Church by giving us this wise and biblically sound advice on how to pray for our parents. Her model of basing our prayers directly on Scripture is both wise and instructive. But, this book will only be of value if it is used. So, get it, plan to read and pray though a short section each day, as you use it as a tool to bless your parents and strengthen your own prayer life. Oh, and make sure I get a copy for each of my sons!

Chelsea Stanley gives us a necessary reminder—our parents are in need of prayer. Here's an insightful, Scriptural guide to help us do just that!

Praying for our parents is a privilege and an important duty. It’s also a practice that, I suspect, we often neglect. I know I do. But, as followers of the One who cared for his own mother even from the cross, we have daily opportunities to bring our parents—whatever their spiritual condition—to the feet of the Savior, asking him to care for their souls. And, as we do, Chelsea Stanley’s book provides a helpful framework. Mining the riches of Scripture, Stanley guides us to intercede for our moms’ and dads’ greatest needs, and to consider our own duty to love and honor them. As you seek to glorify God as the son or daughter he’s called you to be, this book will be an excellent resource.

I need all the help I can get to help me get praying. Few resources hit that target better than this. Pastoral, practical, brilliant.

Surely one of the most important things we can do for our parents is pray for them? And yet so often we run out of steam or we’re not sure how. 5 Things to Pray for Your Parents will energise and inspire you to keep going. Simple, accessible and soaked in Scripture: it will enrich your prayers and broaden their horizons.